Buttercups under your chin
By mentalward
@mentalward (14690)
United States
May 31, 2008 11:18am CST
Did you ever do this? Hold a buttercup under your chin to show whether or not you like butter?
As children, my sister, cousins and friends all did this. We were happy to find buttercups just so we could find out who liked butter and who didn't.
Childhood was such a carefree time way back when (at least for most of us). Life was simple.
Who has done this with buttercups? Do you have any other stories about favorite flowers when you were a child?
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5 responses
@heleni0 (322)
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2 Jun 08
My friends and I used to do that all the time when we were little too. We would run around the playground 'testing' everyone, and obviously it was so scientifically accurate :P
We also used to love making daisy chains. We used to make them and give them to each other, kind of like a friendship bracelet but we'd wear them as necklaces, and sometimes we would spend all of playtime trying to make as long of a chain as we could.
@mentalward (14690)
• United States
2 Jun 08
Am I the only one who doesn't know how to make daisy chains? *pout*
Hiccup said the same thing. How do you make them? I've actually wondered this for many years.
It sounds like fun. Oh, to be a kid again, huh?
Thanks! Take care.
@mentalward (14690)
• United States
2 Jun 08
Yep! I pictured it perfectly in my mind. Now, I'd better write that down so this poor mind doesn't forget it! LOL
Thank you so much for the instructions. I have a lot of little dinky daisy-like flowers, so I'm going to try it tomorrow!
Again, thanks! Take care.
@heleni0 (322)
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2 Jun 08
I'm probably not going to explain this very well but i'll give it a go.
You take a daisy (the little dinky ones, not the big huge ones!), make a little slit in the stem with your fingernail, and thread another daisy through the slit. Then you make a slit in the stem of that threaded daisy, and slot another daisy through that, and so on...
Did that make sense at all?
@makingpots (11915)
• United States
2 Jun 08
My sisters and I used to do that with buttercups too. I remember those carefree days of childhood that you speak of fondly. I also remember searching through clover patches looking for a four leaf clovers.
@mentalward (14690)
• United States
2 Jun 08
Oh, yes! I forgot about that one! My sister and I did the same thing. I guess I'm not getting 'older and wiser', I'm getting older and more forgetful!
@drannhh (15219)
• United States
1 Jun 08
Yes! Children love buttercups and I was no exception. It is naturally for children to call all flowers daisies, but the buttercup is a type of Ranunculus, and the variety we had which grew wild were Marsh Marigold. Here is what ours looked like:
http://www.ct-botanical-society.org/galleries/calthapalu.html
We did also grow other kinds of Ranunculus in our flower beds, including the huge and showy rose/peony shaped ones as pictured here:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519Z7T9G47L._SL500_AA240_.jpg
I do not know the common name for those nor was able to find it online. Perhaps some gardener here on myLot can inform me.
@wangchunxia (701)
• China
2 Jun 08
i have not do this job as you said , but i think it is so interesting ~
@mentalward (14690)
• United States
31 May 08
Yes, the little ones always like it. I remember doing it to my mother, probably to the point where she never wanted to see another buttercup! LOL
